Dr Monica GermanàMonica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Her research interests include late 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with a specific emphasis on Scottish fiction, the Gothic tradition and women’s writing. She is the author of Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing (EUP, 2010) and the editor of a special issue of Gothic Studies on Contemporary Scottish Gothic (November 2011). She has also co-edited New Critical Perspectives: Ali Smith (Bloomsbury, 2013) and has published articles and chapters on Iain Banks, James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and A.L. Kennedy. She is currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Gothic (EUP, 2016), and working on a new monograph (Bond Girls: Body, Dress, Gender) exploring the sartorial appearance of dangerous women in Ian Fleming’s novels and subsequent film adaptations.
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Dr Aaron KellyAaron Kelly is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include modern contemporary Irish and British culture (including Irish-Scottish comparative studies), postcolonial and Marxist theory and practice, literatures of decolonization, popular cultural forms (especially crime fiction and film), working-class writing, migrant literature, theories of the novel, visual culture, anti-capitalism and critiques of modernity and postmodernity. He is the author of James Kelman: Politics and Aesthetics (Peter Lang, 2012) and Irvine Welsh (Manchester UP, 2005). He has also published articles and chapters on Alasdair Gray and James Kelman.
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Zoë Strachan
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Zoë Strachan is the author of three novels: Ever Fallen in Love, Spin Cycle and Negative Space. Ever Fallen in Love was shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards and the Green Carnation Prize and nominated for the London Book Awards. Negative Space won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Zoë’s short stories and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and been broadcast on BBC Radio. She has been UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland, a Hermann Kesten Stipendiaten, a Hawthornden Fellow, and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow. In 2011 she undertook a British Council visiting fellowship at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa and in 2012 she was visiting faculty at Dartmouth College. Works for theatre include Panic Patterns (with Louise Welsh, Citizen’s Theatre and BBC Radio Scotland) and Old Girls (which opened the 2009/10 season of A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor). Her short opera Sublimation (with composer Nick Fells) toured Scotland in May 2010 with Scottish Opera before going to Cape Town, South Africa in November 2010. The Lady from the Sea, a full-length opera composed by Craig Armstrong and based on the play by Ibsen, premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2012, where it won a Herald Angel Award. Between 2011 and 2014 she co-edited New Writing Scotland, Scotland’s principle forum for poetry and short fiction, and she is currently editing a new anthology of LGBT writing from Scotland,Out There, to be published by Freight Books in 2014. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
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